Three-dimensional finite element modeling of guided ultrasound wave propagation in intact and healing long bones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3907-3921

  Protopappas, Vasilios C ^a,b   Kourtis, Iraklis C ^b   Kourtis, Lampros C ^c   Malizos, Konstantinos N ^d   Massalas, Christos V ^b   Fotiadis, Dimitrios I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DISPERSION CURVES; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; HEALING BONES;

ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALLUS; CORTICAL BONE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTURE HEALING; LONG BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BONE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SHEEP; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONICS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34249898886     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2354067     Document Type: Article

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